Mark Ⴟ Ⓥ Delaney

A fun thing about this story is that DHS told Dell "Any allegation that DHS adopted a policy making Privacy Threshold Analyses exempt from the Freedom of Information Act is FALSE,” even though Dell had already reviewed emails showing that is absolutely not true.

Sylvio is a horror game about electronic voice phenomenon. It’s janky and the first one tries to do too much while the latter two maybe overcorrect for that, but play with headphones and those EVP recordings are incredibly scary. I adore it.

The best horror game no one played.

Picture of text that reads: The only difference between you and the people being torn apart by the settler colonial death machine is sheer luck. There's nothing inherent to you that makes you more deserving of safety. It could just as easily have been you, and that arbitrariness should haunt you, not comfort you.

Saw this little bit of luckpilling out the wild.

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

Art direction, music, gunplay, lore, and world design all fantastic

Okay, Marathon, you got me. It wasn’t love at first round like Arc Raiders, and I’ll never get to be in lobbies where everyone is cool and relaxed, but when I’m in the mood for a sweatier time, I can dig it.

Boxes for Glass, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, and Network

When it’s rent 1 get one free at @moviemadness.org but you can’t decide which of these three all-timers to leave out

Movies I watched during paternity leave We had a baby, and babies sleep a lot. So we watched a lot of movies. (Ongoing, January-April 2026)

I’m up to 33 movies on this ongoing list. If you use @letterboxd.social, let’s trade follows. I love seeing what others are watching. I’m creepy in that way. boxd.it/Sfyiq

A ★★★★★ review of It Was Just an Accident (2025) An often overwhelming meditation on revenge and mercy.

The type of movie that makes you say, “What a picture.” boxd.it/dqP8kN

WWE 2K26 Review - The Main Event Wrestling Game We Need Right Now Finally, 2K is addressing problems we've had for a long time.

While I was laid off from @polygon.com this week, I also ducked back in over at @gamespot.com to review #WWE2K26 real quick.

Always nice to know you can go home again. To yell about wrestling.

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I wish I still believed in consequences.

I’m getting some emails like, “I got your auto-reply before but now that you’re back…”

To be clear, I’m not back. I’ll be back on April 20. 😀

I Saw The TV Glow is one of mine and it’s not that I’ve misunderstood the movie; it’s just that the first 30 minutes or so, I absolutely love the ‘90s kid vibes.

Prey, Alan Wake, L4D2, State of Decay 2, Silent Hill 2, SOMA, The Last of Us Part II, Sylvio, and Observation

I did the nine games thing but I did it with my favorite horror or horror-adjacent games.

Prey, Alan Wake, L4D2, State of Decay 2, Silent Hill 2, SOMA, The Last of Us Part II, Sylvio, and Observation

I did the nine games thing but I did it with my favorite horror or horror-adjacent games.

Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die' In an interview with 'Time,' President Donald Trump acknowledged the possibility that Iran retaliates with attacks on U.S. soil, saying, 'We think about it all the time. We plan for it'

Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'

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The best way I can put it is Arc Raiders is an extraction game by way of the survival genre, while Marathon is an extraction game by way of the shooter genre. Take your pick.

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

Firing is a kindness. When is her trial?

Marathon Intro Cinematic YouTube video by Lord Durandal

I was trying to figure out why I vibe with the Marathon art direction so much, and then I realized it’s because it feels like a Health concert. youtu.be/lR1mFMh9PgY?...

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Guide ideas:

14 things you NEED to know before you have a baby

Breastmilk farming locations

Diaper brand tier list

Always so thankful for Marina and Vox giving animal ethics a mainstream platform

I’m on paternity leave 😎

But that means I can’t cover the Marathon launch at work 😩

But it does mean I could possibly play more Marathon 😎

Except I don’t own it and the baby won’t go to sleep 😩

But there is always tomorrow 😌

Ny radical opinion is the people who insist on remaining on the csam site that injects great replacement theory into their eyeballs are mostly cool with those things.

On Highguard and Not Getting To Decide How People Talk About You I began writing this article before Highguard released. Now, as of today, it will be shutting down on March 12th, 2026. I have written some…

I had been working on an article about Highguard since before it even released. Every week or so, something new would pop up and I would do a rewrite. With the game's closure coming, I wanted to summarize my thoughts on this whole...thing.

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